# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Caayipqt6nt
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11732987-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-02-25T23:23:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

You are here.

In 2013, the Cassini spacecraft captured this wide-angle, overexposed view of Saturn and a chunk of its rings. That pale blue dot just below the rings? That’s Earth from approximately 898 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away. 

This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 20 degrees below the ring plane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. It was only the third time ever that Earth had been imaged from the outer solar system.

One of the most ambitious planetary science efforts ever achieved, the Cassini-Huygens mission was a joint endeavour between NASA, the EuropeanSpaceAgency, and the AgenziaSpazialeItaliana. 

For 13 years, the mission studied Saturn and its moons in unprecedented detail. The Cassini spacecraft and its accompanying Huygens probe expanded our understanding of the kinds of worlds where life might exist, changing the course of planetary exploration. 

#Earth #Saturn #Cosmos #YouAreHere #SolarSystem #Space #NASA #Cassini

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